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Laravel Components

CategoriesBack End, Development, Laravel

Part 1

Create a bootstrap project:

Laravel Frontend

Create a new view under new components folder called master.blade.php. This HTML template taken from Bootstrap:

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no">
    <meta name="description" content="">
    <meta name="author" content="">
    <link rel="icon" href="https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.0/assets/img/favicons/favicon.ico">

    <title>Blog Template for Bootstrap</title>

    <link rel="canonical" href="https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.0/examples/blog/">

    <!-- Bootstrap core CSS -->
    <link href="https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.0/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">

    <!-- Custom styles for this template -->
    <link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Playfair+Display:700,900" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="{{asset('css/app.css')}}" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="{{asset('css/blog.css')}}" rel="stylesheet">
  </head>

  <body>

    <div class="container">
      <header class="blog-header py-3">
        <div class="row flex-nowrap justify-content-between align-items-center">
          <div class="col-4 pt-1">
            <a class="text-muted" href="#">Subscribe</a>
          </div>
          <div class="col-4 text-center">
            <a class="blog-header-logo text-dark" href="#">Large</a>
          </div>
          <div class="col-4 d-flex justify-content-end align-items-center">
            <a class="text-muted" href="#">
              <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="mx-3"><circle cx="10.5" cy="10.5" r="7.5"></circle><line x1="21" y1="21" x2="15.8" y2="15.8"></line></svg>
            </a>
            <a class="btn btn-sm btn-outline-secondary" href="#">Sign up</a>
          </div>
        </div>
      </header>

      <div class="nav-scroller py-1 mb-2">
        <nav class="nav d-flex justify-content-between">
          <a class="p-2 text-muted" href="#">World</a>
          <a class="p-2 text-muted" href="#">U.S.</a>
          <a class="p-2 text-muted" href="#">Technology</a>
          <a class="p-2 text-muted" href="#">Design</a>
          <a class="p-2 text-muted" href="#">Culture</a>
          <a class="p-2 text-muted" href="#">Business</a>
          <a class="p-2 text-muted" href="#">Politics</a>
          <a class="p-2 text-muted" href="#">Opinion</a>
          <a class="p-2 text-muted" href="#">Science</a>
          <a class="p-2 text-muted" href="#">Health</a>
          <a class="p-2 text-muted" href="#">Style</a>
          <a class="p-2 text-muted" href="#">Travel</a>
        </nav>
      </div>

      <div class="jumbotron p-3 p-md-5 text-white rounded bg-dark">
        <div class="col-md-6 px-0">
          <h1 class="display-4 font-italic">Title of a longer featured blog post</h1>
          <p class="lead my-3">Multiple lines of text that form the lede, informing new readers quickly and efficiently about what's most interesting in this post's contents.</p>
          <p class="lead mb-0"><a href="#" class="text-white font-weight-bold">Continue reading...</a></p>
        </div>
      </div>
    </div>

    <main role="main" class="container">
      <div class="row">
        <div class="col-md-8 blog-main">
          <h3 class="pb-3 mb-4 font-italic border-bottom">
            From the Firehose
          </h3>

          <div class="blog-post">
            <h2 class="blog-post-title">Sample blog post</h2>
            <p class="blog-post-meta">January 1, 2014 by <a href="#">Mark</a></p>

            <p>This blog post shows a few different types of content that's supported and styled with Bootstrap. Basic typography, images, and code are all supported.</p>
            <hr>
            <p>Cum sociis natoque penatibus et magnis <a href="#">dis parturient montes</a>, nascetur ridiculus mus. Aenean eu leo quam. Pellentesque ornare sem lacinia quam venenatis vestibulum. Sed posuere consectetur est at lobortis. Cras mattis consectetur purus sit amet fermentum.</p>
            <blockquote>
              <p>Curabitur blandit tempus porttitor. <strong>Nullam quis risus eget urna mollis</strong> ornare vel eu leo. Nullam id dolor id nibh ultricies vehicula ut id elit.</p>
            </blockquote>
            <p>Etiam porta <em>sem malesuada magna</em> mollis euismod. Cras mattis consectetur purus sit amet fermentum. Aenean lacinia bibendum nulla sed consectetur.</p>
            <h2>Heading</h2>
            <p>Vivamus sagittis lacus vel augue laoreet rutrum faucibus dolor auctor. Duis mollis, est non commodo luctus, nisi erat porttitor ligula, eget lacinia odio sem nec elit. Morbi leo risus, porta ac consectetur ac, vestibulum at eros.</p>
            <h3>Sub-heading</h3>
            <p>Cum sociis natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus.</p>
            <pre><code>Example code block</code></pre>
            <p>Aenean lacinia bibendum nulla sed consectetur. Etiam porta sem malesuada magna mollis euismod. Fusce dapibus, tellus ac cursus commodo, tortor mauris condimentum nibh, ut fermentum massa.</p>
            <h3>Sub-heading</h3>
            <p>Cum sociis natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. Aenean lacinia bibendum nulla sed consectetur. Etiam porta sem malesuada magna mollis euismod. Fusce dapibus, tellus ac cursus commodo, tortor mauris condimentum nibh, ut fermentum massa justo sit amet risus.</p>
            <ul>
              <li>Praesent commodo cursus magna, vel scelerisque nisl consectetur et.</li>
              <li>Donec id elit non mi porta gravida at eget metus.</li>
              <li>Nulla vitae elit libero, a pharetra augue.</li>
            </ul>
            <p>Donec ullamcorper nulla non metus auctor fringilla. Nulla vitae elit libero, a pharetra augue.</p>
            <ol>
              <li>Vestibulum id ligula porta felis euismod semper.</li>
              <li>Cum sociis natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus.</li>
              <li>Maecenas sed diam eget risus varius blandit sit amet non magna.</li>
            </ol>
            <p>Cras mattis consectetur purus sit amet fermentum. Sed posuere consectetur est at lobortis.</p>
          </div><!-- /.blog-post -->

          <div class="blog-post">
            <h2 class="blog-post-title">Another blog post</h2>
            <p class="blog-post-meta">December 23, 2013 by <a href="#">Jacob</a></p>

            <p>Cum sociis natoque penatibus et magnis <a href="#">dis parturient montes</a>, nascetur ridiculus mus. Aenean eu leo quam. Pellentesque ornare sem lacinia quam venenatis vestibulum. Sed posuere consectetur est at lobortis. Cras mattis consectetur purus sit amet fermentum.</p>
            <blockquote>
              <p>Curabitur blandit tempus porttitor. <strong>Nullam quis risus eget urna mollis</strong> ornare vel eu leo. Nullam id dolor id nibh ultricies vehicula ut id elit.</p>
            </blockquote>
            <p>Etiam porta <em>sem malesuada magna</em> mollis euismod. Cras mattis consectetur purus sit amet fermentum. Aenean lacinia bibendum nulla sed consectetur.</p>
            <p>Vivamus sagittis lacus vel augue laoreet rutrum faucibus dolor auctor. Duis mollis, est non commodo luctus, nisi erat porttitor ligula, eget lacinia odio sem nec elit. Morbi leo risus, porta ac consectetur ac, vestibulum at eros.</p>
          </div><!-- /.blog-post -->

          <div class="blog-post">
            <h2 class="blog-post-title">New feature</h2>
            <p class="blog-post-meta">December 14, 2013 by <a href="#">Chris</a></p>

            <p>Cum sociis natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. Aenean lacinia bibendum nulla sed consectetur. Etiam porta sem malesuada magna mollis euismod. Fusce dapibus, tellus ac cursus commodo, tortor mauris condimentum nibh, ut fermentum massa justo sit amet risus.</p>
            <ul>
              <li>Praesent commodo cursus magna, vel scelerisque nisl consectetur et.</li>
              <li>Donec id elit non mi porta gravida at eget metus.</li>
              <li>Nulla vitae elit libero, a pharetra augue.</li>
            </ul>
            <p>Etiam porta <em>sem malesuada magna</em> mollis euismod. Cras mattis consectetur purus sit amet fermentum. Aenean lacinia bibendum nulla sed consectetur.</p>
            <p>Donec ullamcorper nulla non metus auctor fringilla. Nulla vitae elit libero, a pharetra augue.</p>
          </div><!-- /.blog-post -->

          <nav class="blog-pagination">
            <a class="btn btn-outline-primary" href="#">Older</a>
            <a class="btn btn-outline-secondary disabled" href="#">Newer</a>
          </nav>

        </div><!-- /.blog-main -->

        <aside class="col-md-4 blog-sidebar">
          <div class="p-3 mb-3 bg-light rounded">
            <h4 class="font-italic">About</h4>
            <p class="mb-0">Etiam porta <em>sem malesuada magna</em> mollis euismod. Cras mattis consectetur purus sit amet fermentum. Aenean lacinia bibendum nulla sed consectetur.</p>
          </div>

          <div class="p-3">
            <h4 class="font-italic">Archives</h4>
            <ol class="list-unstyled mb-0">
              <li><a href="#">March 2014</a></li>
              <li><a href="#">February 2014</a></li>
              <li><a href="#">January 2014</a></li>
              <li><a href="#">December 2013</a></li>
              <li><a href="#">November 2013</a></li>
              <li><a href="#">October 2013</a></li>
              <li><a href="#">September 2013</a></li>
              <li><a href="#">August 2013</a></li>
              <li><a href="#">July 2013</a></li>
              <li><a href="#">June 2013</a></li>
              <li><a href="#">May 2013</a></li>
              <li><a href="#">April 2013</a></li>
            </ol>
          </div>

          <div class="p-3">
            <h4 class="font-italic">Elsewhere</h4>
            <ol class="list-unstyled">
              <li><a href="#">GitHub</a></li>
              <li><a href="#">Twitter</a></li>
              <li><a href="#">Facebook</a></li>
            </ol>
          </div>
        </aside><!-- /.blog-sidebar -->

      </div><!-- /.row -->

    </main><!-- /.container -->

    <footer class="blog-footer">
      <p>Blog template built for <a href="https://getbootstrap.com/">Bootstrap</a> by <a href="https://twitter.com/mdo">@mdo</a>.</p>
      <p>
        <a href="#">Back to top</a>
      </p>
    </footer>

    <!-- Bootstrap core JavaScript
    ================================================== -->
    <!-- Placed at the end of the document so the pages load faster -->
    <script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.2.1.slim.min.js" integrity="sha384-KJ3o2DKtIkvYIK3UENzmM7KCkRr/rE9/Qpg6aAZGJwFDMVNA/GpGFF93hXpG5KkN" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
    <script>window.jQuery || document.write('<script src="../../assets/js/vendor/jquery-slim.min.js"><\/script>')</script>
    <script src="../../assets/js/vendor/popper.min.js"></script>
    <script src="../../dist/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
    <script src="../../assets/js/vendor/holder.min.js"></script>
    <script>
      Holder.addTheme('thumb', {
        bg: '#55595c',
        fg: '#eceeef',
        text: 'Thumbnail'
      });
    </script>
  </body>
</html>

In the welcome view replace with a component like this:

<x-master>
</x-master>

Part 2

Cut everything inside blog-main class of master.blade.php and add inside these tags of welcome.blade.php

<x-master>
    @section('main-content')
    Code here
    @endsection
</x-master>

Between blog-main class will now look like:

        <div class="col-md-8 blog-main">
          @yield('main-content')
        </div>

You can further make the main content contain another component by creating a new component called <x-test></x-test> inside the new section. Then in components folder create a template called test.blade.php and add the content you want.

Part 3

Pass data to components

Open routes to add proper controller to the route:

Route::get('/', [App\Http\Controllers\HomeController::class, 'index']);

In home.blade.php add this:

<x-test :users="$users"></x-test>

In your test.blade.php add this:

@foreach($users as $user)
    {{$user->name}}
@endforeach

And finally add this to the HomeController.php

use App\Models\User;
    public function index()
    {
        $users = User::all();
        return view('home', ['users' => $users]);
        
    }
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Add new GA4 script to WordPress

CategoriesBack End, Development, Google Analytics, Online, Tools, WordPress Functions and Hooks

<?php
add_action('wp_print_scripts', 'inline_scripts');
function inline_scripts(){
	//Only track if not logged in or is a customer
	global $current_user;
	if ( !isset( $current_user->roles[0] ) || $current_user->roles[0] == 'customer' ) {
	?>
	<!-- Google tag (gtag.js) -->
	<script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-IDHERE"></script>
	<?php
	}
	?>
	<script>
	  window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || [];
	  function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);}
	  gtag('js', new Date());
	  gtag('config', 'G-IDHERE');
	</script>
	<?php
}
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Regex

CategoriesBack End, Development, PHP

Short for regular expression, a regex is a string of text that lets you create patterns that help match, locate, and manage text.

Examples

Wildcard search in array with regex in PHP

$array = array('Michael','Marian','Martina');
$matching_letters = 'ri'; 
$array = preg_grep("/{$matching_letters}/i", $array);

Websites for regex pattern matching

Regex101.com 
PHPLiveRegex.com 

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Get a List of All Users

CategoriesBack End, Development, Linux

Local user information is stored in the /etc/passwd file. Each line in this file represents login information for one user. To view file:

less /etc/passwd

If you want to display only the username you can use either awk or cut commands to print only the first field containing the username:

awk -F: '{ print $1}' /etc/passwd
cut -d: -f1 /etc/passwd
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WordPress Security

CategoriesBack End, Development, WordPress Functions and Hooks

Add extra security to stop brute force attacks (logins).

These measures can reduce login attempts dramatically from 400 a day to none.

Password Protect wp-login.php

Add this to htaccess

# Stop Apache from serving .ht* files
<Files ~ "^\.ht">
  Order allow,deny
  Deny from all
</Files>
# Protect wp-login.php
<Files wp-login.php>
	AuthUserFile /filelocation/.htpasswd
	AuthName "Private access"
	AuthType Basic
	Require valid-user
</Files>

Deny Access to No Referrer Requests

When your readers comment, the wp-comments-post.php file is accessed, does its thing, and creates the post. The user’s browser will send a “referral” line about this.

When a spam-bot comes in, it hits the file directly and usually does not leave a referrer. This allows for some nifty detection and action direct from the server. If you are not familiar with Apache directives, then write the following in your root directory .htaccess file:

# Stop spam attack logins and comments
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
	RewriteEngine On
	RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} POST
	RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .(wp-comments-post|wp-login)\.php*
	RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !.*domain.com.* [OR]
	RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^$
	RewriteRule (.*) http://%{REMOTE_ADDR}/$1 [R=301,L]
</ifModule>

This will:

  1. Detect when a POST is being made
  2. Check to see if the post is on wp-comments-post.php
  3. Check if the referrer is in your domain or if no referrer
  4. Send the spam-bot BACK to its originating server’s IP address.

Disabling Xmlrpc.php

The biggest issues with XML-RPC are the security concerns that arise. The issues aren’t with XML-RPC directly, but instead how the file can be used to enable a brute force attack on your site.

The first is using brute force attacks to gain entry to your site. An attacker will try to access your site using xmlrpc.php by using various username and password combinations. They can effectively use a single command to test hundreds of different passwords. This allows them to bypass security tools that typically detect and block brute force attacks.

The second was taking sites offline through a DDoS attack. Hackers would use the pingback feature in WordPress to send pingbacks to thousands of sites instantaneously. This feature in xmlrpc.php gives hackers a nearly endless supply of IP addresses to distribute a DDoS attack over.

# Block WordPress xmlrpc.php requests
<Files xmlrpc.php>
order deny,allow
deny from all
</Files>
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Laravel Data Seeding

CategoriesBack End, Development, Laravel

Creating a simple seeder

You’ll find your seeder files under database > seeders

Create a new one with this:

php artisan make:seeder UsersTableSeeder

Open new file and add to run function:

        DB::table('users')->insert([
            'name' => Str::random(10),
            'email' => Str::random(10).'@codingfaculty.com',
            'password' => bcrypt('secret')
        ]);

At the top of document add:

use DB;
use Str;

Now run:

php artisan db:seed

Now look at your database to see new user created.

Creating a more advanced seeder with factories

Go to database > factories to see the default one for users. We’ll use this one inside our DatabaseSeeder.php to create many users at once. Under run function:

<?php
namespace Database\Seeders;

use Illuminate\Database\Seeder;
use App\Models\User;

class DatabaseSeeder extends Seeder
{
    public function run()
    {
        User::factory()->count(10)->create(); 
    }
}

Then run:

php artisan db:seed

Check your database and you’ll see 10 new users with real names.

Create Factories for all Database Tables

Edit user factory:

    public function definition()
    {
        return [
            'name' => fake()->name(),
            'email' => fake()->safeEmail(),
            'email_verified_at' => now(),
            'password' => '$2y$10$92IXUNpkjO0rOQ5byMi.Ye4oKoEa3Ro9llC/.og/at2.uheWG/igi', // password
            'remember_token' => Str::random(10),
            'country_id' => fake()->numberBetween(1,3),
        ];
    }
php artisan make:factory PostFactory

Inside new factory add to definition function:

    public function definition()
    {
        return [
            'user_id' => 1,
            'title' => fake()->sentence(7,11),
            'content' => fake()->paragraphs(rand(10,1),true),
            'path' => fake()->randomElement(['first.jpg','second.jpg','third.jpg']),
        ];
    }

Create one for Role:

php artisan make:factory RoleFactory
    public function definition()
    {
        return [
            'name' => fake()->randomElement(['administrator','author','subscriber']),
        ];
    }

Create one for photo:

php artisan make:factory PhotoFactory
    public function definition()
    {
        return [
            'path' => 'placeholder.jpg',
            'imageable_id' => fake()->numberBetween(1,3),
            'imageable_type' => fake()->randomElement(['App\Models\User','App\Models\Post']),
        ];
    }

Create one for country:

php artisan make:factory CountryFactory
    public function definition()
    {
        return [
            'name' => fake()->randomElement(['Canada','United States','United Kingdom']),
        ];
    }

Add to DatabaseSeeder.php:

<?php
namespace Database\Seeders;

use Illuminate\Database\Seeder;
use App\Models\User;
use App\Models\Post;
use App\Models\Role;
use App\Models\Photo;
use App\Models\Country;
use DB;

class DatabaseSeeder extends Seeder
{
    public function run()
    {
        DB::statement('SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=0');
        DB::table('users')->truncate();
        DB::table('posts')->truncate();
        DB::table('roles')->truncate();
        DB::table('photos')->truncate();
        DB::table('countries')->truncate();

        User::factory()
            ->count(3)
            ->has(Post::factory()->count(2)->has(Photo::factory()->count(1)))
            ->has(Photo::factory()->count(1))
            ->create();
        Role::factory()->count(3)->create(); 
        Country::factory()->count(3)->create();
    }
}

Then run:

php artisan db:seed
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Laravel Frontend

CategoriesBack End, Development, Laravel

Adding Bootstrap plus Login & Registration

First require Laravel UI

composer require laravel/ui

Then you need to choose what front end to include: Bootstrap, Vue or React

php artisan ui bootstrap

For react you need first:

php artisan ui scaffolding

Do bootstrap for this version though.

Now it’ll ask you to run (You’ll need to run from Git Bash):

npm install && npm run dev
php artisan serve
php artisan serve

Create the webpack config file:

touch webpack.mix.js
npm install sass-loader@^12.1.0 resolve-url-loader@^5.0.0 --save-dev --legacy-peer-deps

Open the file and add:

let mix = require('laravel-mix');

mix.js('resources/js/app.js', 'public/js')
.sass('resources/sass/app.scss', 'public/css');

Now compile your css and js to the public folder:

npm install laravel-mix@latest
npx mix

We can’t see bootstrap yet. We’ll need to add to welcome.blade.php

Add link:css and tab to the top of document and then href="{{asset('css/app.css')}}" which will link to the public folder automatically.

Now add this button anywhere to body:

<button class="btn btn-danger">Hi</button>

You should now see a red styled button which means bootstrap css is working.

Add login and registration page

php artisan ui bootstrap --auth

Then after run:

npm install && npm run dev

Now if you go to /login you’ll see a login page.

How to add templates to Laravel projects

admin-templateDownload admin-template.zip

Move js, css and vendor folder into the public folder in Laravel project.

Then copy the contents blank.html and put into layouts/admin.blade.php. Then update the <h1> tag below <!– Page Heading –> with @yield('content')

Create another template under admin/index.blade.php and paste this into it:

@extends('layouts.admin')

@section('content')

<h1>Admin</h1>

@endsection

Create a route:

Route::get('/admin', function () {
    return view('admin.index');
});

Check /admin to see if you see your Admin template.

Now update your admin.blade.php with dynamic asset links: {{asset('vendor/fontawesome-free/css/all.min.css')}}

Create admin/partials/_navbar.blade.php. Then cut out sidebar from admin.blade.php and paste into this file.

Go back to admin.blade.php and in its place paste:

@include('admin.partials._navbar')

Refresh to view

This is how to take a template and break it out into parts in Laravel.

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Sending Email / Api

CategoriesBack End, Development, Laravel

Sign up for Mailgun

Then find your API keys

Updating env file

Open config/mail.php to configure beginning of email:

MAIL_HOST should be smtp.mailgun.org

Update from address to something like:

    'from' => [
        'address' => env('MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS', 'myemail@domain.com'),
        'name' => env('MAIL_FROM_NAME', 'Christine'),
    ],

Open up config/services.php to find mailgun variables needed to set up env file. MAILGUN_DOMAIN, MAILGUN_SECRET

Open env file and delete all mail info and add these lines:

MAIL_DRIVER=mailgun
MAIL_HOST=smtp.mailgun.org
MAIL_PORT=587
MAIL_USERNAME=postmaster@blah.mailgun.org
MAIL_PASSWORD=passwordhere
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=tls
MAILGUN_DOMAIN=sandboxa63bbae0e8f448b7a7943f800a2a166a.mailgun.org
MAILGUN_SECRET=281329ff11f62a513a665d35f7763aea-4dd50799-322083f3
Get the password and username from clicking SMTP option inside Mailgun.

Create a new view /emails/test.blade.php. Then add to route:

Route::get('/', function () {
    // return view('welcome');
    $data = [
        'title' => 'This page will send an email',
        'content' => 'It\'s going to happen, just wait!',
    ];
    Mail::send('emails.test', $data, function($message){
        $message->to('emailhere', 'Christine')->subject('This is the subject');
    });
});

Add this to your test.blade.php

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <title>Document</title>
</head>
<body>
    <h1>{{$title}}</h1>
    <h1>{{$content}}</h1>
</body>
</html>

Then add a requirement:

composer require guzzlehttp/guzzle
Any changes made to email do this: php artisan config:clear

You need to go into vender > guzzlehttp > guzzle > src > Client.php and find verify.. change it to false.. this will allow without ssl enabled in dev.

Now you’ll be able to visit the homepage and you’ll get sent an email!

If you go back to Mailgun you can go to Sending > Logs to see the emails went out.

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Laravel Sessions

CategoriesBack End, Development, Laravel

Setting and reading sessions

Create a HomeController:

php artisan make:controller --resource HomeController

Your route /home will point to the HomeController:

Route::get('/home',[HomeController::class, 'index']);

Now add a session to index:

    public function __construct(){
        $this->middleware('auth');
    }
    public function index(Request $request)
    {
        $request->session()->put(['christine'=>'hello christine']);
        session(['peter'=>'hello peter']);
        echo $request->session()->get('christine');
        //return view('welcome');
    }

Above are two ways of saving sessions. We are only returning the first one when visiting the /home URL.

Global session function deleting

Add a method to forget the session:

    public function index(Request $request)
    {
        $request->session()->put(['christine'=>'hello christine']);
        session(['peter'=>'hello peter']);
        $request->session()->forget('christine');
        return $request->session()->all();
        //return view('welcome');
    }

To delete all sessions use this:

        $request->session()->flush();

Flashing data

This type of session will show user the session once (flash it to them) and then forget it.

        $request->session()->flash('message','Post has been created');
        return $request->session()->get('message');

Two more types are reflash and keep:

        $request->session()->reflash();
        $request->session()->keep('message');